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Garrett J. Grolemund ’03 is a psychology concentrator in Winthrop House. Every time he publishes a cartoon, Thomas Nast rolls over in his grave. Soon the resulting angular momentum will dislodge Earth from its orbit, making Boston as warm as Garrett’s home in sunny Florida. Garrett also enjoys hate mail and was saddened by how little of it he received during his debut semester with The Harvard Crimson...
...Gruner & Jahr), Wired and Business 2.0. Their ad slump is not as severe as the Standard's, but is still daunting (20%, 31%, 32% and 44% drops from January through July, respectively). But Fast Company and the Herring are older, more established magazines with lower costs, and Conde Nast's Wired and AOL Time Warner's Business 2.0 have potential subscription draws and advertising leverage from the many properties of their parents...
Always one of the country's most beloved hotels, the 381-room Grand has been anointed year after year by Conde Nast Traveler as "one of the best places to stay in the world." Unlike many other grande dames, the Grand did not fall on hard times. But as it ages, it requires constant care. The Musser family, which bought it in 1933, has in the past 20 years spent about $50 million on renovations. Last year the family completed the largest addition since the hotel opened, including a Millennium Wing with 42 new rooms and an expanded dining room...
...nast supports sweeping changes in the E.U.'s costly Common Agriculture Policy, which bases subsidies to beef producers on the number and weight of cows rather than how they are grown. She favors subsidies to farmers who make better environmental use of their land. In any case, she has run into a brick wall in Brussels: France has vetoed any changes to agricultural policy until after its 2002 presidential elections. At home, Künast has been forced to oppose E.U. agriculture chief Franz Fischler's efforts to cut subsidies for farms with more than 90 animals: the move could...
...What's already clear is that Künast favors the consumer over the farmer. What's not so clear is whether, in an age when agricultural policy is increasingly dictated from Brussels, Künast has the freedom to put her unorthodox policies into practice...